Two chicks sit in a towering robin nest on a porch in Erie, Pa. Homeowner Camille Hardner said the mother laid her eggs only after she and her mate built five nests stacked one on top of the other in two days. "Maybe she was trying to get out of the wind," Hardner says.

Kashmiri Muslim women carry fodder for cattle in the vicinity of a gun battle between Indian army troops and suspected armed rebels at Chadoora, Srinagar. A soldier was killed and three others injured in the shootout.

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Civil war remembrance:

During National War Heroes Day in Colombo, a Sri Lankan points at a name on a memorial to fallen soldiers of the decades-long conflict against the Tamil Tigers. The government was planning a major military "victory parade" to mark five years since the defeat of the Tamil rebels. An estimated 100,000 people, including soldiers, rebels and civilians, died in the war.

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Bringing up baby:

A Slovenian army helicopter team rescues an infant by winching the baby carrier to the chopper over the flooded village of Tisina in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The rest of the child's family was evacuated later. Serbia is suffering its worst flooding since it begin recording water levels 120 years ago.

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Listing house:

Pavlovic Oksana stands on the front porch of her house, now tilting precariously after flooding in Krupanj, Serbia. The town was cut off for four days by high water and landslides. At least 49 people have been killed in the Central European floods.

World War II veterans Geoffrey Pattison (left) and Ronald Knight share war stories aboard the HMS Belfast in London during an event marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day. HMS Belfast was one of the first ships to open fire on German positions at 5:27 A.M. June 6, 1944, and is one of only three remaining vessels of the bombardment.